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Jack Dodds has died, and his three close friends travel together to pay their last respects and take his ashes to Margate Pier and scatter them into the sea, Jack's final wish. As the journey develops via Rochester, Chatham and Canterbury, the characters tell their different life stories.
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- VerlagPicador
- Erscheinungsdatum1996
- ISBN 10 0330347454
- ISBN 13 9780330347457
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Alfred A. Knopf, NY
(1996)
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Buchbeschreibung Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Signed, limited advance reader's copy in a publishers slipcase. Last Orders is a captivating tale of English working-class families in the four decades following WW II. When Jack Dodds dies suddenly of cancer after years of running a butcher shop in London, he leaves a strange request-- namely, that his ashes be scattered off Margate pier into the sea. And who could better be suited to fulfill this wish than his three oldest drinking buddies-- insurance man Ray, vegetable seller Lenny, and undertaker Vic, all of whom, like Jack himself, fought also as soldiers or sailors in the long-ago world war. Swift's narrative start with its potential for the melodramatic, is developed instead with an economy, heart, and eye that release (through the characters' own voices, one after another) the story's humanity and depth instead of its schmaltz. The jokes may be weak and self- conscious when the three old friends meet at their local pub in the company of the urn holding Jack's ashes; but once the group gets on the road, in an expensive car driven by Jack's adoptive son, Vince, the story starts gradually to move forward, cohere, and deepen. The reader learns in time why it is that no wife comes along, why three marriages out of three broke apart, and why Vince always hated his stepfather Jack and still does-- or so he thinks. There will be stories of innocent youth, suffering wives, early loves, lost daughters, secret affairs, and old antagonisms-- including a fistfight over the dead on an English hilltop, and a strewing of Jack's ashes into roiling seawaves that will draw up feelings perhaps unexpectedly strong. Without affectation, Swift listens closely to the lives that are his subject and creates a songbook of voices part lyric, part epic, part working-class social realism-- with the ring to it of the honest, human, and true. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers va11
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NY: KNOPF. 1996
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ISBN 13: 9780330347457
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Buchbeschreibung Soft cover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. RARE "Signed" Presentation Edition of the 1st American Uncorrected Page Proofs. 1996 Booker Prize Winner. New copy. Never read. Book comes in a Slip Case. Slip case is shrink wrapped. Shrink wrap has never been opened. Book and Slip Case are PERFECT. COLLECTOR'S cOPY. Signed by Author(s). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000995
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